Thursday, July 23, 2009

JOINT STATEMENT BY MCA MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS 马华正副部长联合声明

We note with great concern the recent press reports on the challenges which our President Y.B. Dato’ Sri Ong Tee Keat has to face in his handling of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue.

This is an appropriate time for us to show our unity and our support for the leadership of Dato' Sri Ong Tee Keat as our President.

We share his stand that the interests of the people must be adequately addressed, as the government and the public await for an acceptable solution to the PKFZ saga. Those who create obstacles, make threats, suppress the truth and mislead the public must be condemned in the strongest terms possible.

MCA is now on a difficult and tedious journey to redeem itself and to win back the support of the Chinese community in particular and all Malaysians in general.

We need a leader who has the credibility and moral standing to make MCA a modern, reconfigured and cohesive party that is able to support and strengthen the Barisan Nasional.

Dato’ Sri Ong is our clear choice to perform such a task.

He has not only answered the call for change but has been at the leading edge of reforms within the party as well as the party’s efforts to serve the members and Malaysians.

Our President has shown us in recent times by example the importance of having selfless leaders who can wade the party through the dangerous places and rivers we have to cross.

We pledge our support for our President in his principled stand in addressing party issues and concerns, consistent with our party constitution and mission.

We assure the President of MCA that we shall stand shoulder to shoulder with him as our party move forward in its struggles. We have to work as a team and as one Party to build Malaysian Chinese Association into a worthy partner in the Barisan Nasional coalition under the leadership of our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.